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INDIA - Programme & Souvenir of the Royal Tour in India of the Prince and Princess of Wales. The King's Service afloat and ashore. The Navy and Army described by Pen and Camera. Gale & Polden Ltd., London Offices and Warehouse, Aldershot Stores, Bombay. [1906].
Royal 8vo. Colour-printed card wrappers; pp. [xiv], 31, four colour illustrations after paintings on 2 leaves of plates, highly illustrated after photographs in the text; spotting to wrappers, inside of lower wrapper with small abrasure, internally very good.
This extremely rare publication by the military printers and publisher Gale and Polden in Aldershot opens with the detailed schedule of the Royal visit from their landing in Chennai on the 24th of January until their departure from Hyderabad on the 10th of February and a visit to Ellora Caves on Friday, the 16th. This publication covers only a small part of the Royal tour which in total lasted from November 1905 to March, 1906, and we assume this sovenir was published for the members of tf the Army and Navy who where engaged in safeguarding and as entourage. The bulk of this souvenir describes life, work and pastimes in Army and Navy.
We were not able to trace any copy institutionally or commercially, nor is this publication referred to in any text known to the internet.
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